Winnie, Leech and Sand Lake report

Started my days of fishing last week on Winnie, what a great bite fished the stoney and farley creek area. The fish were in the 7-9 ft of water and on the prowl. We were using 1/8 oz fireballs from Northland and drifting with the wind. We have had some wind lately and I think that has really turned the shallow bite on.
Next stop was Sand lake, I fished Sand a couple days and it was pretty decent. Lots of fish but a lot of 11-12 inch fish we had to throw back and at the end of the day we had a nice bunch of 14-18 inch fish. We fished Sand in the deeper water off the humps in 13-20 ft of water, I was still using 1/8 fireballs and a shiner.
We also fished Leech a day, wow has that been fun this year. Its been along time since we were able to fish Leech, and with the added stocking the last few years its finally paid off. lots of fish, anywhere from 10 inches to 25 inches we were busy the whole day. We fished mostly the break out of federal dam on the north end of the lake in 7-11 ft.
The fishing in our area has really been great lately hope you all get a chance to get out and give it a try
Good luck fishing
Jason Boser
mnfishing pros

Thanks for the reports Sir Jason. Can you keep the bite going for another 10 days on Winnie....

I am guessing it should hold up might be more leeches by then and out on the humps its hard to say this year
Jason

Thanks for the report guys. I am coming up with a couple of other guys this Thursday. Any reports on how the fishing is out of Cut Foot and Bowens?

Thanks Jason, Thats OK I like the humps, so long as the wind behaves.... I think it might be crawler time. I am sure Doc has already switched over.

i hate fishing the bars i can never figure out which way they run

We just got back from Winnie area. We never even got to fish Winnie!! We had awesome luck on a different local lake. Lots of eyes. Leeches were the hot ticket in the afternoon and it was a crawler bite in the morning. Had enough for a real good fish fry at the " Hill". To quote the guys in our fishing party " It was the trip of a lifetime".

Hey walleyes 4 me, you didn't fish Winnie, why not. Saturday was such a beautiful day up here.

Saturday was beautiful?? Beautiful if you like rain. Hahaha. No, we didn't fish it because we had such good luck on a different lake.

I saw 1 or 2 boats out on Saturday morning and that was it. It got worse as the day went on. Then the hurricane hit Winnie around 4:00PM. Lost power and got it back around 8:30PM.
Fishing was good on Sunday. A little windy but fishable.